Nominations for 10 awards to recognize the achievement and excellence of our scholar-leaders and campus partners by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) are due by March 27.
Cornell has been chosen as one of 11 universities to orient enlisted military veterans to academic life through the Warrior-Scholar Project. The project emphasizes reading, writing and the liberal arts.
The student-run Tribal Economic Development Summit Feb. 28 at the Law School brought together Native American law alumni to discuss the opportunities and challenges of economic development.
At a retreat focusing on crime and punishment Feb. 13-15, students in the Posse program along with their mentors discussed the U.S. prison and justice systems and ways to improve them.
Eight individuals and the officers of a women’s leadership organization received Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Awards for their contributions to improving the climate for women at Cornell.
“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.
A week after winning the Oscar for best original song, the rapper/actor/activist Common spoke to 1,300 Cornell students in Bailey Hall March 2 on secrets to success.
Jonathan Boyarin, the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has translated a history of East European Jewry.
Cornell students were immersed into “expeditionary learning” this January in a rural Taos, New Mexico, high school. They worked on multidisciplinary projects that get students out into the community.